Primoz Roglic emerged as the overwhelming favourite for the Giro d’Italia title when the Slovenian won the ninth stage, a 34.8-km individual time trial from Riccione.Italian Valerio Conti retained the overall leader’s pink jersey after finishing 3:34 behind Lotto Jumbo-Visma rider Roglic, who crushed most of the overall contenders with a time of 51 minutes 52 seconds.Among those, two-time champion Vincenzo Nibali of Italy limited the damage when he lost 1:05 following a strong showing in the finale, a 12.25-km climb in San Marino, to take fourth place. Belgian Victor Campenaerts and Dutchman Bauke Mollema finished second and third respectively.Briton Simon Yates took a beating as he lost 3:11 to Roglic, and Spain’s Miguel Angel Lopez ended up 3:45 off the pace after all the general classification contenders rode the stage in wet conditions.